Exam question 3 · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

On what condition did the hermit consent to accompany the youngest brother?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, accompany · To what, where: hermit consent, condition, youngest brother

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consent	compound
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 accompany	mark
9	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 consent	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accompany	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hermit consent		condition			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality
2	accompany	to-infinitive		the youngest brother					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Receipt of half of anything obtained, plus a seat on the royal council

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 half	case
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Receipt	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 half	nmod
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 anything	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seat	punct
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	10 seat	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seat	det
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Receipt	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 council	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 council	det
13	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 council	amod
14	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	receipt			half of anything					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Receipt of half of anything obtained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 half	case
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Receipt	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 half	nmod
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 anything	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	receipt			half of anything					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Receipt of half of anything obtained from the king's treasury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 half	case
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Receipt	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 half	nmod
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 anything	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 treasury	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treasury	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	participle				the king's treasury			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from treasury=Source
2	receipt			half of anything					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Receipt of half of all the gold and property the youth obtains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 half	case
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Receipt	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gold	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 property	cc
9	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Receipt	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obtains	nsubj
12	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Receipt	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	present	the youth	Receipt of half of all gold and property not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset receipt=Theme
2	receipt			half of all gold					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

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